---
title: "Accessibility Checker Rule Help: WCAG20_Input_RadioChkInFieldSet"
---
import "../../../styles/ToolHelp.scss"
import { CodeSnippet, Tag } from "carbon-components-react";

<div className="toolHelp">
<Row>
<Column colLg={16} colMd={8} colSm={4} className="toolHead">

### Form controls share `name=\"{1}\"` but are not grouped

<div id="locLevel"></div>

Related sets of radio buttons or checkboxes should be programmatically grouped

</Column>
</Row>
<Row>
<Column colLg={11} colMd={5} colSm={4} className="toolMain">

### Why is this important?

Grouping related radio buttons and checkboxes enables assistive technology to convey the group relationship to users (e.g. "group of 5 radio buttons").

<div id="locSnippet"></div>

### What to do

 * Group related controls of the same type by enclosing them within a `<fieldset>` element;
 * OR, group related radio buttons by using `role="radiogroup"`;
 * OR, group related checkboxes by using `role="group"`;
 * OR, disassociate unrelated controls or controls of different types by using different `"name"` attribute values.

</Column>
<Column colLg={5} colMd={3} colSm={4} className="toolLeft">

### About this requirement

[IBM 1.3.1 Info and relationships](https://www.ibm.com/able/guidelines/ci162/info_and_relationships.html)

### Who does this affect?

 * Blind people using screen readers

</Column>
</Row>
</div>

export default ({ children, _frontmatter }) => (<React.Fragment>{children}</React.Fragment>)
